Jon Garthwaite
Jon Garthwaite, Editor of Townhall.com, joins Chip to talk about the acquisition of the conservative web portal by Salem Communications, as well as his outlook of the future of politics online.
You know I’m a big believer that online pairs nicely with print. You won’t hear me saying that books, newspapers, magazines, and the like are dead. In fact, my own Eaglon publishes online and offline in tandem for Media Bullseye and Cork & Knife. That’s why I was not surprised, but definitely pleased, to see…
Dave Winer offers an interesting post on his vision of the future of news on television. He sees a time when viewers get to control their personal view of the news. By providing preference information, they would see the kinds of stories they’re most interested in. He suggests it would become a “river of news,”…
This morning, I found myself thinking about 19th century Prussian field marshal Helmuth von Moltke the Elder. Well, not about him so much as something he is credited with saying (and that is among my favorite observations applicable to business): “no battle plan survives contact with the enemy.” That’s a bit how I feel about…
In recent years, we have heard much talk of services like Facebook, Twitter, Salesforce and others being “platforms.” The implication is that they are much like operating systems like Windows, Linux, or OS/X where developers can build applications on top of them. And that’s true, at least in a technical sense. The problem is that…
Two items showed up in my reader that may interest not only foodies, but those interested (as I am more and more) in the online video space. They’re almost diametrically opposed, though, which makes it more fun to watch and see how it plays out. One is offered by a major brand focused on brand-name…
When I began to read Jason Fried and David Hansson’s Rework, my first impression was: here we go again. As the book opened up, it had a lot of the tired old rants that reminded me of the part of 37 Signals I like least, as well as some of the same nonsense that Tim…